Nancy Lutz, 74, and Nancy Nagel, 71, said they were too sad to stay home today.
“This is a miserable, miserable, sad day. And I think we just wanted to be with other people who felt the same way,” Lutz said. “You wonder what’s happening to our country. I do.”
“How many times do we have to protest the same thing over and over again, for autonomy for our bodies?” said Nagel. “We’re not worried about our generation. Obviously. We’re not going to get pregnant. We’re worried about the children and grandchildren behind us.”
Josie Phillips, 21, was standing nearby on the curb along Congress St.
“I think it’s just important,” Phillips said. “I think it’s really important to support abortion rights, especially during a time where women aren’t valued or people with uteruses aren’t valued enough.”
She said when she heard the news earlier in the day, she cried.
“It’s really disheartening to know that a political minority can overtake our politics to the point where people are left without healthcare.”
Katie with Arizonans for Reproductive Freedom was there at the corner collecting signatures for a proposed AZ constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights.
“We knew this was coming, and so it was a lot of just putting things into action today. We’ve been preparing for this for a while. So today’s a big push.”
Source: https://www.azpm.org/p/headlines/2022/6/25/211267-tucson-greets-roe-reversal-with-protests/